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by nytesky 2y ago
My sister said they received a counterfeit book — how is that possible since I thought Amazon guarded their book supply chain at least?
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by nytesky 2y ago
I remember the 2004 initiative, the ownership society etc. 1) If you diverted funds from the pay as you scheme and invested in it stocks etc, how would they make up shortfall? Why doesn’t the govt itself invest like an old school pension o
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by nytesky 2y ago
For a lot of care you are getting NP or PA instead of doctors.
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by nytesky 2y ago
I think you just a vocal minority on social media. It does seem likely that Millenials and GenZ may do better than boomers. https://fortune.com/2024/04/30/high-status-millennials-boome...
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Aren’t they comparing medians, so it accounts for the tiny percentage do tech/finance that do well? I mean there were junk bonds and corporate raiders in the 80s, as well as the 90s stock bonanza and 2000s real estate. Even a state emp
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by nytesky 2y ago
Well we are heading to criminalizing homelessness, so it’s better than prison. I welcome alternatives but letting people setup encampments needs to be fixed.
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There are probably vacant homes all around places like the Rust belt — as a nation we have probably sufficient housing for at least group homes. We need national funding, to get people housed and rehabilitated. Jobs are a nice idea, but hav
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by nytesky 2y ago
Oh but does have android app. Sorry didn’t realize you just wanted no app, I definitely sympathize.
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by nytesky 2y ago
Shelters have reduced privacy than your own tent, don’t allow drugs or alcohol. I’m unsure about how ‘relations’ work for unmarried people. It’s not like they get their own little studio apartment, and even then most would forbid illicit
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by nytesky 2y ago
On iPhone I only see Signifcant Locations; on my phone I only see a list of 3 places (despite 400 records). Compared to Google Timeline it’s much more curtailed function.
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I mean most of those vectors will converge on my home dot; with time data any vector intersecting with my home can tell a lot about my life. Additionally, is it anonymized per user (ie all my vectors are still a set just not identified as m
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by nytesky 2y ago
Why not just get a tile?
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I think the perception of the middle class shrinking is that it is 1) true there are more people in lower middle class than before and less in the middle 2) even for those who moved “up” to upper middle class, the buying power has been stri
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by nytesky 2y ago
On a parenting blog I follow they talk about Triathlete widows and have a dim view of triathletes as spouses. I would be interested in a study if that is true? It’s a particularly time consuming sport, as it’s essentially training for 3 rac
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by nytesky 2y ago
So is StarLink profitable already? I have heard that SpaceX is going public, and the expectation is they are profitable and will be a big IPO. They have been scooping out contracts from UAL with lower pricing for years, and reusable rockets
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by nytesky 2y ago
While I agree with you, the Cuban Missle Crisis was the 60s, so I assume nuclear war was very vivid. But having fresh memories of WW2, perhaps we felt confident “never again?” or were numbed to the idea.
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Is the u shaped curve just a proxy for financial condition? Young people starting out didn’t make much but eventually earned more saved and could look forward to a house and affording a family The U curve is lowest when career starts platea
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by nytesky 2y ago
So before Uber did taxis return to dispatch center for such things? With their own version of Danny DeVito?
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A QR code can store 3 KB of data. Every patient has a small QR Sticker printer on their bed. Whenever EPIC updates, print a new small QR sticker. Patient being moved tear of sticker and stick to their wrist tag. This much of patients state
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by nytesky 2y ago
From Guns, Germs, and Steel, my impression is that cows as a species will go extinct if not domesticated. I am all for grass fed free ranging happy cows, of course, and I personally don’t eat red meat. But I don’t know where on the scale of
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by nytesky 2y ago
I don’t understand the juicero. If you are “juicing” what is basically canned fruit, in what world could that be better than blending and straining fresh fruit?
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Aren’t AirTags a mesh network of sorts? Or do the tags just piggy back on nearest device.
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by nytesky 2y ago
Average dew point July 62F Rome 74F Houston https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/italy/rome/climate https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/houston/climate Noticable vs humid an
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by nytesky 2y ago
I definitely suffered from severe internet addiction in college, and still struggle today. I rarely use social media other than forums like HN, and I know it impacts my financial health (like depression about my lackluster career for exampl
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Doesn't CEO and non profit operate out of Nashville?
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Since it's founding, we've seen Gamergate, the rise of Brogrammers ( https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/tech/web/brogrammers/index.ht... ), and Changs book on Brotopia. I could see it if st
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Didn't Italy get noodles from Asia relatively recently
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My impression is that it doesn’t matter. There are so many ways to track down your age with automated databases linked in clues, etc And they will eventually zoom or meet you for most jobs, and know. Definitely curtail and curate the resume
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Obama is a tail end boomer (‘61) GenX starts ‘65 https://guides.loc.gov/consumer-research/market-segments/gen...
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As a cynical and slacker-esque GenXer, my take is that capable people, people with drive and resources, choose instead to follow all the broadening paths to wealth (and by extension power) rather than pursue politics. Before the dot.com, th

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